Lawson English wrote:
>
> Thanks. I had gotten that far with John Dougan's help and tried to 
> save back to the repository but it wouldn't accept since I lack a 
> password.   I converted all references of Floats to Fractions just to 
> see if there was an easy way to give it higher precision but it slowed 
> down to < Apple ][ speeds when I did that.
>
>
> Obviously the naive way isn't going to work. I gotta think there's 
> some glitch with what I did, or incompatibility with the algorithm and 
> Fractions....
>
>
Or maybe  things like x^100/y^100   takes a rather long time to calculate...


sigh...


So an arbitrary precision Mandelbrot generator in Squeak isn't going to 
be a cakewalk, apparently, or perhaps I'm missing something else obvious.


Lawson